Latest Workers' Compensation Headlines
All the headlines from our Workers' Compensation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oklahoma Placing Pegasus Insurance into Rehabilitation
Jul 5 2010 // A district court judge has authorized Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland to place Pegasus Insurance Co. into rehabilita-tion. Pegasus specializes in workers’ compensation for professional employer...
CMTA and CompWest Form Workers’ Compensation Partnership
Jul 2 2010 // The California Manufacturers and Technology Association (CMTA) and CompWest Insurance Company have formed a partnership to provide a group workers’ compensation program for California’s manufacturing sector....
Washington Closer to Eliminating Workers’ Comp Insurance Monopoly
Jul 2 2010 // A campaign to end the state’s monopoly on workers’ compensation insurance appears to have enough support to qualify for the November ballot, adding to a busy initiative season in Washington politics. Initiative...
NetComp Opens Workers Comp Program to Agents in 5 States
Jul 1 2010 // NetComp Insurance, a newly-formed program manager based in Columbia, S.C., has opened its online program (www.netcompinsurance.com) for small to-mid size workers’ compensation business to all independent agents in...
New York Looking to Clamp Down on Self-Insured Trusts
Jun 30 2010 // New York Gov. David Paterson wants to rein in the use of self-insured trusts in the Empire State, following the recommendation of task force formed in the wake of several high-profile trust collapses over the last several...
Liberty Mutual Wins Dismissal of Claim for Injured Mass. Carpenter
Jun 25 2010 // Liberty Mutual was right to deny workers’ comp benefits for a self-employed carpenter who severely injured his hand, the Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled. The decision upholds an earlier ruling by an...
SeaBright Launches New Managed Care Claims Program
Jun 25 2010 // SeaBright Holdings, Inc.’s subsidiary, SeaBright Insurance Co., has launched a new managed care new program called “BrightCurePDQ”, which stands for Physician-Directed Quality. Starting in June, upon...
Equipment Dealers Dividend Grows 436% in 3rd Year with Texas Mutual
Jun 24 2010 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced a $471,031 dividend to the Texas Machinery and Equipment Dealers (TM&E) workers’ compensation purchasing group. The group’s third annual dividend grew $383,228 over last...
Calif. Temporary Disability Workers’ Comp Claim Costs Down 6.1%
Jun 22 2010 // Temporary disability outcomes in California’s $8 billion workers’ compensation system have continued to improve since the enactment of 2004 reform legislation, new research from the California Workers’...
FAIA’s Grady: Florida Needs to Improve Its Insurance Reputation
Jun 21 2010 // The following are excerpts from a wide-ranging interview by Insurance Journal’s Andy Simpson with Jeff Grady, president and CEO, Florida Association of Insurance Agents, from Grady’s Tallahassee...
OSHA: Iowa Railroad Wrongly Censured Train Conductor
Jun 17 2010 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has ordered the Iowa Interstate Railroad, headquartered in Cedar Rapids, to make amends for censuring a train conductor who was disciplined...
Texas Work Comp Enforcements Include Suspensions, Insurer Fines
Jun 16 2010 // Final disciplinary actions taken in March and April by the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) include removal of providers from Designated Doctors list and insurance company...
California Seeks Workers’ Comp Claims E-Filers
Jun 16 2010 // California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is seeking more participants for its e-forms trial, which allows filers to electronically submit forms and documents directly into its Electronic...
Revamp of Oklahoma Workers’ Comp System Signed by Governor
Jun 15 2010 // Legislation intended to improve the Oklahoma workers’ compensation system for injured workers was signed into law June11 by Gov. Brad Henry. The governor’s signature on the measure also reduces by one the...
South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Rates to Drop 9.8%
Jun 15 2010 // South Carolina insurance regulators have approved an industry filing that lowers workers’ compensation insurance rates for employers by an average 9.8 percent. Insurers can begin using the new rates in 30...
Texas Approves 10 Companies to Self-Insure for Workers’ Comp
Jun 11 2010 // The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) approved the renewal of the Certificates of Authority for 10 companies to self-insure for workers’ compensation claims for a...
Best Affirms Workers Comp Reinsurer Eastern Re’s ‘A-‘ Ratings
Jun 10 2010 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of ‘A-‘ (Excellent) and issuer credit rating of “a-” of Cayman Islands-based Eastern Re Ltd. S.P.C., both with stable outlooks. The ratings...
Oklahoma Governor Signs Workers’ Compensation Bills
Jun 10 2010 // Gov. Brad Henry has signed legislation requiring Senate confirmation of his nominees to the Workers’ Compensation Court that was similar to a measure he vetoed last year. Henry signed the legislation June 8 along...
Georgia to Allow Failed Insurers’ Clients to Buy Into Insolvency Pool
Jun 9 2010 // Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue has signed into law a bill allowing employers whose previous workers compensation carrier goes out of business to pay into the insolvency pool to cover injured workers’ claims. The law has...
California Workers’ Comp Premium Down Nearly 10%
Jun 8 2010 // California workers’ compensation total direct written premium (DWP) fell nearly 10 percent last year, dropping to a nine-year low of $6.9 billion, according to market share data from the National Association of...
